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Bimanual Reach to Grasp Movements in Youth With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Reaching and grasping (prehension) is one of the earliest developing motor skills in humans, but continued prehension development in childhood and adolescence enables the performance of increasingly complex manual tasks.
Rachel A. Rodgers   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Knowledge of the Concept of Physical Literacy among Rehabilitation Professionals, Students and Coaches Practicing in a Pediatric Setting

open access: yesDisabilities, 2023
Approximately 22% of Canadian children with physical disabilities meet the daily physical activity recommendations. Physical activity is attributed to physical literacy, a conceptualization of the domains required to be physically active throughout life.
Margaux Hebinck   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of Sedentary Time and Quality of Life in Women With Fibromyalgia: Cross-Sectional Study From the al-Ándalus Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Sedentary time (ST) has been associated with detrimental health outcomes in fibromyalgia. Previous evidence in the general population has shown that not only is the total amount of ST harmful but the pattern of accumulation of sedentary ...
Acosta Manzano, Pedro   +5 more
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A Comparison of Modified Team-Based Learning and Lecture-Based Instruction in Occupational Therapy Education

open access: yesJournal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2020
This study explored the comparative effectiveness of team-based learning and lecture-based instruction in consecutive cohorts of occupational therapy students. Further, the study explored student perceptions of team-based learning. The mixed method study
Paul Bonzani   +2 more
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Re-assessing the social climate of physical (in)activity in Canada

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Social-ecological models suggest that a strategy for increasing population physical activity participation is to reconstruct the “social climate” through changing social norms and beliefs about physical activity (PA).
Matthew James Fagan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy of self-reported height, body mass and derived body mass index in a group of law enforcement officers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
: Height and body mass data is often self-reported by study participants. However, the accuracy of self-reported height and body mass data compared to these same measures collected by researchers is unknown.
Cvorovic, Aleksandar   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Student Perceptions and Grade Comparisons after Exposure to Instructor-Made Skills Videos in a Kinesiology Course

open access: yesJournal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2019
The purpose of this mixed method, descriptive case study was to determine whether the use of pre-recorded instructor-made videos (PRIMVs) in a kinesiology course, along with curricular design changes, facilitated increased conceptual and practical ...
Pamela Karp, Robert G. Kallagher
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers to cross-disciplinary knowledge flow: The case of medical education research

open access: yesPerspectives on Medical Education, 2021
Introduction The medical education research field operates at the crossroads of two distinct academic worlds: higher education and medicine. As such, this field provides a unique opportunity to explore new forms of cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange ...
Mathieu Albert   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of muscular forces from SSA smoothed sEMG signals calibrated by inverse dynamics-based physiological static optimization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The estimation of muscular forces is useful in several areas such as biomedical or rehabilitation engineering. As muscular forces cannot be measured in vivo non-invasively they must be estimated by using indirect measurements such as surface ...
Alonso Sánchez, Francisco Javier   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding resilience among transition-age youth with serious mental illness: protocol for a scoping review

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Transition-age youth (16–29 years old) are disproportionately affected by the onset, impact and burden of serious mental illness (SMI; for example, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorders).
Skye Pamela Barbic   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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